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<h1>Managing merged index files
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<p>Merging index (.hhk) files from <a href="merge.htm">multiple compiled help (.chm) files</a> requires some management of each index. Consider the following when creating the index files for each compiled help file in the collection:  
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	<li>Index authors for each compiled help file should use similar indexing guidelines to avoid unwanted repetition of similar index entries.
	<li><a href="htklink.htm">Keyword links (KLinks)</a> and <a href="htalink.htm">Associative links (ALinks)</a> should be standardized for all the index files in the collection.
	<li>Abbreviations should be standardized for all the index files being merged.
	<li><a href="idxent3.htm">site map</a> index files cannot be merged with binary index files.
	<li>If used, <a href="overit.htm">information types</a> should be standardized for all the index files in the collection.
	<li>Merged indexes are created at run time and any edits or customization to individual index files will be lost when the merged index is resorted.
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